Background*

Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Ph.D, has been Senior Advisor of Regions Financial Corporation since September 2009. Dr. Rice serves as an Honorary Advisor of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She is a Co-Founder and Principal at RiceHadleyGates LLC. She is the Denning Professor in Global Business and the Economy at the Graduate School of Business; the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution and a professor of Political ... Science at Stanford University. Dr. Rice is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where she taught political science since 1981. Dr. Rice served as Provost and Vice President at Stanford University from 1993 to 1999, a post in which she served as the University's Chief Budget Officer. From January 2005 to 2009, she served as the 66th Secretary of State of the United States, the second woman and first African American woman to hold the post. She also served as President George W. Bush’s Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (National Security Advisor) from January 2001 to 2005. From 1989 to March 1991, she served on President George H.W. Bush’s National Security Council staff. She served as Director, Senior Director of Soviet & East European Affairs and Special Assistant to the President at National Security Affairs. In 1986, while an international affairs fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, she also served as Special Assistant to the Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. She serves as a Director at C3 Energy, Inc. She has been a Director of Dropbox, Inc. since April 2014. Dr. Rice serves as a Director of Grassroots Enterprise, Inc. and C3, LLC. She serves as a Trustee of The Aspen Institute. She serves as a member of the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She serves on the boards of Makena Capital, a private endowment firm. In addition, she is a member of the boards of the George W. Bush Institute, the Commonwealth Club and Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Inc. Dr. Rice served as a Director of KiOR, Inc. since August 2011 until December 2013. Previously, she has served on various additional boards include: the Charles Schwab Corporation; the University of Notre Dame and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors. She served as a Director of Transamerica Corporation since 1991. She served as a Director of Chevron Corporation and of William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. She is also a member of J.P. Morgan's International Advisory Council. She served as Stanford University’s Provost from 1993 to 1999, during which she was the institution's chief budget and academic officer. As Provost, she was responsible for a $1.5 billion annual budget and the academic program involving 1,400 faculty members and 14,000 students. In 1997, she also served on the Federal Advisory Committee on Gender - Integrated Training in the Military. She won two of the highest teaching honors: the 1984 Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1993 School of Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching. She has authored and co-authored several books, including Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft in 1995, with Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev Era (1986), with Alexander Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army in 1984. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been awarded ten honorary doctorates. Dr. Rice earned her Bachelor’s degree in Political Science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Denver in 1974; her Master’s from the University of Notre Dame in 1975 and her PhD from the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver in 1981.

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